While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
脑回路非常清奇，一首环保诡歌，艺术风格的确独树一帜，但我记住的还是蕾雅的身体。。。
有被涩到，蕾雅和Viggo简直神仙一般美丽。我个人觉得其实是很直白地表达身体是不断变化的现实，欲望代替疼痛成为存在的意义。我非常喜欢柯南伯格一些美术概念，里面那个遥控器真的太太太涩了。缺点是有点长，有些台词没太懂。
不理解！柯南伯格是不是预算没批下来，哪有奇观（器官）？哪有震惊
一部晦涩的伦理探索片……人类进化过程中，对于生理、心理和伦理上的探讨……最终的结论是：管他娘的，脚踩西瓜皮，滑到哪里是哪里，做爱的方式都变了，还纠结个鸟！……另外，法国妹子就是大自然的馈赠，而K妹在里头有多少存在感？K妹甚至还不如那两个女机修工！
台词真的非常“当代艺术策展文案”🌚
究竟何为“未来罪行”？是对痛感与畸形的变态追求？是对自我生命的漠视与改造？还是面对进化规律时的顽固抵抗？如果说从最开始的当机立断切割器官，到后来的拖延，从看到蕾雅赛杜的“头雕”的反感，到最后自我改造，拥抱合成食物的过程是维果饰演的主角的一种思想启蒙与进化的话，他的“罪行”或许在被自己慢慢赎清。BTW，Surgery is the new sex，真是一个恐怖而新奇的观点。
可能觉得这种病态的迷恋的呈现对我来说还不够，我见过的最好的还要属《情迷画色》那样的
Crimes.of.the.Future.2022.2160p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.HDR.HEVC-CM 摄影很棒。其他的没看懂
【A】Beautiful，和预期完全是两部作品。最好的柯南伯格之一。
惊了，乍看是个环保片！仔细想想，应该是在讨论个人身体的控制权，以及对于“人”的定义权。viggo叔这个角色，这个造型，换个人来演估计都会很装，他就刚刚好。
实在看不到任何导演的才华，就是把一个idea用干瘪的对话包装出了100分钟的视频 ，除了一点点猎奇的画面外，大部分时间都在进行不知所云的正反打念台词，抛了一堆莫名其妙的设定也讲不出东西。Viggo和Léa都带来了上佳的表演，但和导演有什么关系我很怀疑。
@@完全不能理解柯南伯格对肉体的迷恋。最后吃塑料真是拯救了世界。
演员的演技倒是不差，但是这个剧本这个摄制这些个道具，及其呈现出来的恶心的东西，我认为只有恶趣味才能喜欢
比预期要好很多，身体恐怖和循环嵌套的虚实结合，确实有卖弄结构和符号之嫌，但是有启发
@AMC 不能说看懂了也不能说没看懂 很多隐喻的部分有一些超乎我的理解范畴
和思颖在电影院看了，无奈语言水平有限，没太明白。
如果说几十年前柯南伯格拍的那些主打感官的恐怖片仍是类型化的，那么《未来罪行》相比之下则更加恢宏、深刻、哲学和冰冷。在极简的场景和人物关系中更侧重于呈现对进化的那种近乎病态的迷恋，拥抱混乱和无序，沉迷未知和危险。相比之下情节的弱化和结尾的仓促都不重要了，它更像是一个未来编年史的开头一页，永恒熵增的一幕序章。
失掉的而感到遗憾，我们正在那条神奇的单单
《Science》《Nature》《Cell》《柳叶刀》。反常规去赋予新的人体“痛感”和“高潮”，我害怕这样的现实。
柯南伯格已经进入亟需完成个人作者神话物语的desperate阶段 which is just not exciting anymore
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